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Three agents become AITO specialists
AITO Specialist Travel Agents has welcomed three new members – Double S Travel, Cambourne Travel and Bailey’s Travel.
Based in Luton, Double S Travel was founded in 1985 and specialises in leisure, cruising and business travel.
Its owner Steve Pattenden said the agency had decided to join after getting fed up with the way it is treated by the ‘big boys’.
"We are getting a little tired of being courted when they need us and dropped when they don’t," he said.
"We look for long-term, reliable relationships with the tour operators we deal with."
Cambourne Travel in Milton Keynes opened in 1974 and is a family-run business offering leisure and business travel.
With offices in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire and Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, Bailey’s Travel was founded in 1988.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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